The 1982 Muslim Brotherhood document, "Towards a Worldwide Strategy for Islamic Policy"--discovered by Swiss police in November 2001 and known as the Project--maps al-Banna's plan. His successors, and author MB spiritual leader Yusuf Qaradawi, Swiss authorities say, order Muslims to engage "economic institutions adequate to support the cause financially" in directives covering roughly 14 pages, headlined "departure points."

Elsewhere, Qaradawi decrees, "holy war...is an Islamic duty... [F]ighting...is the Way of Allah for which zakat must be spent." His 1999 "Fiqh az-Zakat" describes the "most deserving" zakat and jihad, "...to rebuild Islamic society and state and to implement the Islamic way of life in the political, cultural and economic domains."

Itself now partly owned by bin Talal, the Wall Street Journal in November 2007 ironically noted the tragedy that bad management and "blundering U.S. monetary policy" had again left Citigroup prey to Arab sheiks. Citi got its cash transfusion by granting "only" a 4.9% "minority stake"--and no board seats--magically for 0.1% under the 5% necessitating U.S. Federal Reserve Board approval.

The Fed should intervene anyway--given the avid and ongoing, apparent UAE observance of zakat and jihad directives from Muslim Brotherhood leaders like Qaradawi:

UAE president Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahayan's late, terror-financier father also "owned the infamous [global] Bank of Commerce and Credit International" (BCCI)--which bilked depositors of billions before being shuttered in 1991; funded terrorist groups, states and projects like Hezbollah, al Qaeda, Syria, Iran and Pakistani nuclear bomb manufacturing; and was created "to help the world of Islam, and [as] the best way to fight the evil influence of the Zionists," as noted by Rachel Ehrenfeld in Evil Money (Harper Collins, 1992, pp. 160, 164-5, 169-70).

In October 2007, Dubai violated World Trade Organization (WTO) rules--banning the Israelis from the Federation of International Freight Forwarders and Customs Clearing Agents world congress. Dubai Ports World and its government holding company prohibit trade with Israel.

In 2003, the UAE established a federal agency specifically to collect zakat on government tax revenues from "companies listed on the Dubai Financial Market and Abu Dhabi Securities Market... oil-producing companies and branches of foreign banks," obviously including U.S. oil companies and banks. This year alone, the UAE zakat tax agency collected an estimated $13.5 billion.

In what dark corner are U.S. legislators, Fed and securities market regulators asleep?